E-book publishing?

Anyone ever publish an ebook? I mean on Amazon, etc., for profit.

I'm looking for tips, tricks, pitfalls to avoid, etc. I'm a ways off from being done but I'd like to start getting set up for the process. [Beer]

Read all about it direct from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing -> http://kdp.amazon.com

Are we in the book?

Ted Koppel wrote lights out. He's over on arf and real friendly. I think his screen name is halfast

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Originally Posted by Circuits

Read all about it direct from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing -> http://kdp.amazon.com

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I've been through that, thanks. There's always a "gotcha" in there for dolts like me.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Are we in the book?

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It's a self help book about how to avoid being lured into and addicted to online forums. Very dark and disturbing content. ☺

Try contacting Sarah Hoyt. Indie publisher and a fellow Coloradan somewhere by the springs. Accordingtohoyt.com

My boss published a trilogy on Amazon but he would be pissed off if I outed him. :-)

Besides, it's not like he hangs out around here or anything.

So I'm not much help am I?

I have several author clients who are self published including Sarah.

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

Ted Koppel wrote lights out. He's over on arf and real friendly. I think his screen name is halfast

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Not sure if serious.

I published a kids pop up ebook on amazon. Didn't work out to well.

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Originally Posted by colorider

I published a kids pop up ebook on amazon. Didn't work out to well.

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Depends upon what the pop-ups were...

Thanks for the replies.

I'm considering digital only. No physical book or pop ups.

Edit: wait, a pop up ebook? How does that work?

Subscribed

Interested in the details of publishing an Ebook.

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

Ted Koppel wrote lights out. He's over on arf and real friendly. I think his screen name is halfast

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Yeah I think you're confusing David Crawford (halffast) who wrote the fictional "Lights Out" which many people here have probably read, and Ted Koppel, who recently wrote another book called "Lights Out" that is more of a documentary thing. Both are supposed to be decent books (I've only read Crawford though Koppel is on the kindle already), but I've never heard anyone mention Ted Koppel on arf. David's been over there for a while.

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Originally Posted by Brian

Yeah I think you're confusing David Crawford (halffast) who wrote the fictional "Lights Out" which many people here have probably read, and Ted Koppel, who recently wrote another book called "Lights Out" that is more of a documentary thing. Both are supposed to be decent books (I've only read Crawford though Koppel is on the kindle already), but I've never heard anyone mention Ted Koppel on arf. David's been over there for a while.

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Brian is right, David Crawford posts under the halffast handle. Ted Koppel "borrowed" the Lights Out title.

BTW, I recently finished Koppel's book, and highly recommend it. It paints a frightening picture of our country's vulnerability and lack of preparedness. If Forstchen and Crawford's books didn't turn you into a prepper, Koppel's should.

Yup. Couldn't remember his real name and Google lead me to that conclusion. My mistake

Either way halffast is the guy I'm referring to

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

It's a self help book about how to avoid being lured into and addicted to online forums. Very dark and disturbing content. ☺

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I would have thought it was a book about tragic boating accidents. [NoEvil]

Maybe if you had a specific question?

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Originally Posted by Hummer

Brian is right, David Crawford posts under the halffast handle. Ted Koppel "borrowed" the Lights Out title.

BTW, I recently finished Koppel's book, and highly recommend it. It paints a frightening picture of our country's vulnerability and lack of preparedness. If Forstchen and Crawford's books didn't turn you into a prepper, Koppel's should.

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Interesting you should say that. Our daughter told me she go Lights Out & One Second After for her boyfriends b-day. Curious why she explained. he's kind of on board with the whole being prepared, food storage and guns things. BUT......I'm hoping after he reads those books, that would be the push he needed to "get on board"

Meanwhile, Back to the OP's topic, Already in progress.

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Originally Posted by spqrzilla

Maybe if you had a specific question?

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I haven't tried yet so I don't have a specific question. I asked for things to avoid, tips, etc. from folks who have tried and had some advice.

Assuming you have a good copyedit, there is a trial and error learning curve on how to go from a Word file to a good Kindle ebook in terms of paragraphs, formatting and such. The most difficult part of do it yourself is a good cover. Good cover design can be very important. People do judge books by their cover - especially ebooks.

Some links to discussions:

http://accordingtohoyt.com/2012/02/0...e-im-going-in/

http://madgeniusclub.com/tag/book-covers/

http://madgeniusclub.com/2014/12/20/...er-typography/

Make sure that if you use clip art that your art is licensed for the purpose you want. Read the license.

Formatting discussions

http://madgeniusclub.com/2014/12/09/...-it-look-good/

http://madgeniusclub.com/2014/12/16/...ion-to-e-book/

The links above are from people that I know are actually doing ebook indie publishing successfully.

Peter Grant on sales numbers for his book

http://madgeniusclub.com/2015/03/13/...a-book-launch/